By Metropolitan Agafangel (Pashkovsky) First-Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church AbroadPatriarch Kirill, who headed the Moscow Patriarchate, in his speech of July 12th, 2025 in the Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg, suddenly scattered with especially servile compliments to the dictator and murderer Putin, blasphemously calling him an "Orthodox man" who: "Not some random parishioner mimicking the religion of the majority, but a church man, sincerely believing. Could we have thought